A 24-year-old blogger has revealed how an addiction to make-up and obsession with her appearance led to her being sectioned – before she completely turned her life around.
Amy Robb, from Northern Ireland, appeared on ITV’s This Morning on Monday to discuss her path to recovery after first experiencing problems with her mental health as a teenager.
She told Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield that her addiction to make-up was so bad, she refused to let her boyfriend see her without a full face of slap and got up at 4am to spend at least an hour perfecting her look.
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“I struggled with really bad acne for over ten years so I was putting on make-up to kind of hide from that,” she said.
“I was [due in work at six am] so I was up by four or, if my acne was even worse, it could be a quarter to four.
“It’s absolutely absurd looking back now that I was spending an hour and a half on my face but that was just my routine and I didn’t even bat an eyelid.
“It really infuriated me that I was spending all this time putting make-up on but it’s just what I thought I had to do.”
Amy explained that sometimes she wouldn’t even take her make-up off at night, she’d sleep in a full face of products, then do a touch up in the morning.
“I felt so unworthy and disgusting without it that I would have avoided mirrors without make-up on,” she said.
Amy said she’d never go make-up free in front of her then-boyfriend and if he did catch her au naturel, she’d hide her face from him.
In an interview with The Sun, she explained: “
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